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Write Your Congressman -- If You Use IE
inonit writes "Well, geez -- after all this US election talk, I got inspired to write my congresswoman. But as a good Slashdotter, imagine my irritation when I found the following note in the "Contact" section: 'In order to send an e-mail to Congresswoman Tubbs-Jones, please complete this form using the Internet Explorer browser. If the Internet Explorer browser is not available, please mail your correspondence to the listed postal mailing address above.'
I don't really have the time to check all 435 Congressional sites to see if this is widespread, but it gives me some insight into why all those <sarcasm>foreigners</sarcasm> are complaining about having their governments be beholden to U.S. technology companies. Can someone running IE write my congressperson and ask her to let me write her? Does she only accept phone calls from AT&T customers?" I just tried filling out the form with Mozilla, and ended up at a page notifying me of a search error. (Huh?)
It isn't that they prefer Microsoft products, they are technically challenged.
"tannaz.haddadi@mail.house.gov"
Who is Tannaz Haddadi? Does he work for al Quaeda or Saddam Hussein, intercepting all the mail? You send mail saying Saddam is a bad guy, and the message received says good guy?
You would think that mail to Stephanie Tubbs would go to stephanie.tubbs@mail.house.gov, even if that is not the address used for her normal messages.
How does a true statement and a joke get modded "Flamebait"?
The problem is a coding error. The page does not work in IE, either. The Slashdot story is wrong.
When a moderator cannot comment on a story and also moderate it, that assures that much moderation is done by bored moderators, who are only looking at a story because they want to get rid of their moderation points.